Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
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Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#2Funny, isn't that exactly the same thing Apple does?
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#3Funny, isn't that exactly the same thing Apple does?
It's interesting that Windows is stopping at 10 as well.
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#4How does that work exactly? Will they require a subscription? I have a hard time believing most Windows users who right now think they are getting "Windows for free" with their laptop and never have to worry about it again, would agree to pay Microsoft even $1 a month for it.
If there is no subscription then how will they charge users - per "major update"? Like some sort of Windows 10.1? What would happened to the Windows 10 users who don't want to pay for that update then? Do they still get security fixes?
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#5I'm not happy with this. I waited on XP until they got over vista, and I'm still on 7 while I watch in bemusement at the windows 8.1 nonsense.
Now, with windows 10, my security updates will come bundled with my unwanted OS changes. I doubt microsoft will let people opt out of unwanted cloud-based security risks or crazy interface experiments.
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#6Funny, isn't that exactly the same thing Apple does?
OSX = Apple OS Ten, Windows 10 = Microsoft OS X?
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#7So I wonder if they are they going to move to more aggressively limiting you moving a license from one machine to another.
Or are they just going to rely on people just paying for the convenience of having Windows pre-installed and working out of the box?
In all honesty, they'll probably do fine relying on the latter.
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#8Funny, isn't that exactly the same thing Apple does?
The rolling/incremental release is something that Apple does, but it's not like Apple is the only company doing it. Several Linux distros follow the same release model, and other software (not just OSes) does it too - MATLAB switched to this style model years ago, and it is nice at work to have something that is never more than 6 months out of date.
The only downside is that you have to really plan out deprecating features. It's easy to drop features when going from major release to major release, but in a rolling update, you need to give developers a heads up that things are about to change and give them time to fix things in their code.
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#9Stupid decision. Will take years before they realize Internet is not so fast everywhere and not every company would like to have only online version of OS.
Re: Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
#10I see 2 possible scenarios.
1) as others are suggesting, they'll adopt Apple's versioning model putting everything under the windows 10 umbrella.
2) they are setting the table for a rebranding/replacement of Windows in the same fashion as they are doing with IE.